Irori

Irori Japanese Restaurant

Marina del Rey

A cool little Japanese restaurant and sushi bar. It used to be called East, now called Irori. Food is still good and its a nice traditional setup inside. Shoes come off and you sit down on the floor. There is space below for your feet to go and they give you cushions to sit on. Very cool and food was equally good. Its in the strip mall area in Marina by the new Pavillions and CVS.

Cool setup...

As you can see, we grubbed and forgot to take pics.

But here is what was left of the Calimari. :-)

Gyu-Kaku

GYU-KAKU

Beverly Hills

So before we went to the Musiq Concert, we stopped off at Gyu-Kaku in Beverly Hills. Its a Yakiniku style Japanese restaurant where you grill your own food right at your table! The food is delicious and its always fun. As you will see, we killed our food so fast we didnt get to take any pictures of it, but I got a shot of dessert though! :-)

Here is the grill in the center of the table used to cook our grub. Some of our favorites are the Chilean Sea Bass w/ Miso Butter! Yum! Soooo good! Of course the Kalbi Short Rib and Rib Eye are good. The veggies, mushrooms and asparagus are a must have. They come in packages of foil that you place right on the grill. Oh and no meal is complete without the Garlic Shrimp Bibimba! Its awesome garlic shrimp fried rice in a hot stone pot...so make sure you get that.

Cheescake Crepe...it was yummy! With a scoop of Vanilla ice cream.